Just so that we know, I looked at the recent voting patterns, and though there was a brief lull in voting earlier in the year, there are more votes now on average than ever before.
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mixedmath♦Dec 11 '12 at 23:12

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"More votes now on average" --- does that mean more votes per average answer? per average question? per average day? per average voter?
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Gerry MyersonDec 11 '12 at 23:42

@Gerry: It means more votes per day on average. We also have more posts per day on average and more very-quickly-closed-posts per day on average, so counting votes per post seems very hard. Perhaps one explanation for an apparent slow-down of votes is that the voting base itself is not perhaps growing as fast as the number of questions/answers, given how many people use the site for a very small number of questions. But that is speculation. All I really know is that there are far more votes per day on average than ever before.
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mixedmath♦Dec 12 '12 at 0:51

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@mixedmath, thanks. If, just to make up some numbers out of thin air, posts per day are up 50% since January, and votes per day are up only 20%, people will feel that as a decreasing rate of votes. Questions will get fewer votes (on average), answers will get fewer votes (on average).
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Gerry MyersonDec 12 '12 at 6:43

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@mixedmath it's just been 14 days since Matt asked: "Has there recently been statistically less upvoting than usual?" and Phira answered: "...there has been a recent drop by half a vote per answer in the last two months...".
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draks ...Dec 12 '12 at 8:08

@mixedmath, do you think that's enough support for the topic of week?
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draks ...Jan 7 '13 at 11:26